Combined Signal and Sign-Displaying Lamp for Vehicles. (open access)

Combined Signal and Sign-Displaying Lamp for Vehicles.

Patent for a combined signal and sign-displaying lamp for vehicles that uses only one light to illuminate all the sections and allows for easy interchanging of number plates.
Date: October 10, 1911
Creator: Puckett, Almor Manor
System: The Portal to Texas History
Container. (open access)

Container.

Patent for a collapsible container that is easily assembled without the "employment of nails or fastening devices" (line 10).
Date: April 10, 1917
Creator: Dunn, Lewis C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeration and Subirrigation for Promoting Vegetation (open access)

Aeration and Subirrigation for Promoting Vegetation

Patent for large terminal that can be implanted into the ground, which can supply air and moisture into the surrounding soil to stimulate growth of vegetation.
Date: October 10, 1916
Creator: Rife, Archibald H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Foot Rest. (open access)

Collapsible Foot Rest.

Patent for a collapsible foot rest used for shoe shining stands. The invention is meant to simplify and improve the process of one stepping off or on a foot-rest to prevent injury or accident.
Date: December 10, 1918
Creator: Le Laurin, Eugene M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Escape. (open access)

Fire-Escape.

Patent for an improved chute type fire escape which is used to allow people to safely descend several stories of a building to the ground. Improvements include easy and economical installation, prevention of congestion of persons entering the chute, prevention of persons falling out of the chute, and inclusion of a water sheet to prevent the chute from catching fire.
Date: October 10, 1916
Creator: Youngblood, David Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Wheel (open access)

Resilient Wheel

Patent for a resilient wheel that is not puncturable by objects in the road bed.
Date: September 10, 1912
Creator: Mathieson, Marius
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Aeroplane (open access)

Safety-Aeroplane

Patent for a safety aeroplane including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1914
Creator: Haynes, Thomas Stanley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Hub. (open access)

Spring-Hub.

Patent for spring hubs in automobiles and other vehicles. This prevents jarring and jolting between the spindle and the wheel.
Date: February 10, 1914
Creator: Lasswell, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dry-Cleaning Apparatus (open access)

Dry-Cleaning Apparatus

Patent for a dry cleaning apparatus. Illustrations included.
Date: September 10, 1912
Creator: White, Edward Y.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Decorticating Fibrous Leaves of Plants. (open access)

Device for Decorticating Fibrous Leaves of Plants.

Patent for a machine that decorticates fibrous material from leaves and plants designed to be of low manufacturing cost and light enough to be carried on pack animals.
Date: July 10, 1917
Creator: Askew, Joel Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History